The study of microstructure and mechanical properties of twin-roll cast AZ31 magnesium alloy after constrained groove pressing
2014
Abstrakt
Microstructure investigation and microhardness mapping were done on the material with ultra-fine grained structure prepared by constrained groove pressing of twin-roll cast AZ31 magnesium strips. The microstructure observations showed significant drop of the grain size from 200 mu m to 20 mu m after constrained groove pressing.
Moreover, the heterogeneities in the microhardness along the cross-section observed in the as-cast strip were replaced by the bands of different microhardness in the constrained groove pressed material. It is shown that the constrained groove pressing technique is a good tool for the grain refinement of magnesium alloys.